Robert Horton, Writing About Film

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About This Site

The Crop Duster has two goals. One is to organize links to my critical work: reviews written for The Herald (Everett, Washington) and Seattle Weekly; and public appearances and TV jobs. Selected past work for Film Comment and elsewhere is also linkified. You may also link to my website of 1980s reviews and learn more about my book on Frankenstein and my graphic novel, ROTTEN.

The second goal is to keep a daily record of films watched, annotated with brisk, brief comments. It's a slightly more advanced version of the movie list I kept, in Flair pen, thumbtacked next to my bed when I was twelve.

On KUOW’s “Weekday,” I talk with Steve Scher about political hair and the changes in DVD delivery systems. It’s archived here; the movie bit kicks in at the 17:30 mark.

In this podcast from the enterprising folks at Movie Geeks United, I chime in with comments about Barry Lyndon. It’s part of an ambitious series about Stanley Kubrick; the program includes interviews with Kubrick collaborators (including co-star Leon Vitali), biographers, and director Neil LaBute. I’m not in much of the first half-hour but I get chattier in the middle section. Listen to the near-80-minute show here or at the Movie Geeks United website. My own piece on Barry Lyndon is here.

At What a Feeling!, round out the week of Eighties reviews with a piece on Red Sonja.

On Sunday afternoon, join me at the Frye Art Museum for a talk called “The Anatomy Class: Cinema and the Body,” which looks at how filmmakers from Leni Riefenstahl to Claire Denis have employed flesh as a proper subject; more info here. It’s a 2 p.m., and it’s free.